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Re: Call for Papers: IAENG International Conference on Control and

Mark Crispin

2006-09-10, 9:59 pm

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, John Woodgate wrote:
> I quite agree; even the quearmark of hackery. Of course, it's quite true. A
> classical example is Donald Glaser's paper on the bubble chamber, which was
> rejected everywhere in 1952 (in one case because he used the word 'bubblet',
> which wasn't in the dictionary used by the editors of a very well-known
> journal) and won him a Nobel in 1960.

Indeed, but it is not enough to be persecuted by the establishment to be
another Galileo. One must also be right.

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